Carpet-beater.



No. 738,470. PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1903.

v W. A. MoDANIBL. I

CARPET BEATER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 8, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

V WITNESSES: W/L% 44/%%%9M/JNVENTOH f I 4. 2 71 FOR/V578 o'rouwcqWASHINGTON u c UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

WVILLIAM A. MCDANIEL, OF FORT WVAYNE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- IIALF TOCHARLES W. SOHEBER, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

CARPET-BEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,470, datedSeptember 8, 1903.

Application filed September 8,1902. Serial NoJlZZA'Zl. (No model.)

To aZZ whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I,WILLIAM A. MCDANIEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen, in the State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Beaters; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, whichwill enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part ofthis specification.

My invention relates to' improvements in carpet-beaters.

It is well known that the leading essential features of a handcarpet-beater are cheapness, lightness, flexibility, and durability andthat the great defect in the present carpet-heaters is their weakness atthe point of union between the operative parts thereof, particularly thetendency of the beater-fingers to pullout of the handle and of thehandle to split and break.

The object of my present invention is to provide a carpet-beater ofgreat strength, lightness, and flexibility, formed of but two parts sounited as to overcome all liability to become disunited in use.

My invention consists of a single piece of wire formed into a pair ofbeater-loops united with each other and with the wooden handle by anovel interlocking union, whereby the tendency to the splitting of thehandle is avoided under the lateral strains thereon incident to use.

Similar reference-numerals indicate like parts throughout the severalviews,in which Figure 1 is a side view of myinvention with the handlepartly broken away to show the mannerofsecuringtheends of the wirebeater therein. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a slightlymodified form ofthe same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged View of the upper end of the handlebroken away in part and showing the manner of securing the looped andtwisted end of the wire beater in the handle, this View being takenatright angles to the views in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 is an enlargeddetail plan of the upper end of the handle, showing the relativearrangement of the vertical grooves and slots in which the adjacent endsof the wire fingers are secured.

The handle of any desired form and material, preferably of a singlepiece of wood, as shown, having an enlargement upon each end thereof,the forward one 2 being adapted to form a hand-guard and also to securethe beater-fingers about to be described. The beater-fingers 3 and i,preferably two in number, are formed of wire loops arranged in the sameplane and made of a single piece of wire and secured to the handle 1 asfollows: The handle 1 has its enlarged upper end 2 provided with atransverse aperture 5 and a pair of opposite vertical grooves 6,extending from the said aperture to the upper end of the hanor openings7'near the opposite edges of the said handle, Figs. 1 and 2. A piece ofwire of proper size, strength, and flexibility is first passed throughthe aperture 5 and then bent upward intoa loop 8 midway of its ends, thesides of which loop rest snugly in the said grooves 6 and are thenbrought together in a double twist 9, Fig. 3, after which the wires 10and 11 are continued upward in the same place to form the inner side ofthe respective loops 3 and 4. The wires 10 and 11 after forming theinner sides of the beaterloops of proper length are bent downward toform the outer sides of the said loops and have their free endstightlyinserted into the respective oblique openings 7 If desired, thestrength and rigidity of the beater-loops or fingers can be materiallyincreased by uniting the inner sides of the said loops at or near themiddle of their length by a twist 12, as shown in Fig. 1.

' It is obvious that as the loop 8 passes through the handle and isfirmly secured in the opposite lateral grooves 6 and that as the freeends of the wire are bent to fit the oblique openings 7 the wire beatersor looped fingers are rigidly and securely united to the handle, with notendency whatever to become separated in use or to cause a splittingstrain upon the handle. It is also obvious that my improved beater ischeap, simple, and of a durable construction without in the leastsacrificing its lightness and flexibility. While the grooves 6 are notabsolutely essential to myinvention, they are preferably employed.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by LettersPatent is 1. As an article of manufacture a-carpetbeater formed of twocooperative parts comprising a wooden handle having a transverseaperture in its upper end and provided with opposite lateral grooves, apair of beaterloops formed of a single piece of wire which is passedthrough the said aperture, bent into a holding-loop at or near themiddle of its length, then twisted at a point adjacent to the handle,and then formed into a pair of beater-loops in the same plane, and whosefree ends are obliquely bent and then rigidly A. D. 1902. WILLIAM A.MoDANIEL. Witnesses:

ADELAIDE KEARNS, AUGUSTA VIBERG.

